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uppermost from about 8:5 mm. above the base, and having on each 
side of it 2 nerves from the base, the inner ascendent, the outer 
sub-ascendent and much shorter than the others; petiole minutely 
puberulous, 6°3 mm. long, sheath basal. Peduncle very minutely 
puberulous, slender, up to 7°55 mm.long. Spike: & about 25 mm. 
long, 25mm. thick; rhachis hirsute; bract glabrous, its limb rounded, 
05 mm. in diam. with a central pedicel: 9 about 16°8 mm. 
long and 6:3 mm. wide when ripe; rhachis and bract as in the male; 
ovaries free and very densely condensed, glabrous ; stigmas 3, ovate. 
Berry globose, sessile, black when dry, nearly 1 mm. in diam, 
Spreng. Syst. I. 117; Herb. Willd. n. 682; C. DC. in Prodr. XVI. i. 
352. Chavica sarmentosa, Miq. Syst. Pip. 242, in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. IV. 433, in Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. 441, in Suppl. (Sumatra) 186, 473, 
in Pl. Jungh. I. 16, in Linn. XXI. 482; Wight Ic. t. 1929. Peperomia 
sarmentosa, A. Dietr. Sp. I. 161. 
Penance: Wallich. Stnaarore: roadsides and hedges, Des- 
champs; damp and shady places, Kunstler 212.—Distris.: Java, 
Borneo, Philippine Islands. 
18. Piper Scortecuinti, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 
8 (1912). Slender creeper, 4°5 -6 m. long; branches glabrous, dark 
brown when dry, the spiciferous 11-5 mm. thick ; eollenchyma not 
libriform or partly so, in distinct laterally widened bundles ; no peri- 
pheric lysigenous canal ;: many rubescent cells in bark. Leaves short- 
ly petioled, glabrous; limb membranous when dry, copiously and 
minutely pellucid-dotted, 12—15:5 ecm. long, 3°6—4°8 cm. wide; 
oblong-elliptic-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the base attenuate, its 
sides unequally long in the male, of same length in the female ; 
penninerved, the central nerve emitting from nearly half of its 
length 7 ascendent nerves of which 3 on the shortest 4 on the long- 
est side of the limb; petiole up to 12°6 mm. long of which 2°1—4:2 
mm. between the sides of the limb; sheath prolonged a little above 
the base of the petiole. Peduncle glabrous, slender, 14°7—25:2 mm. 
long. Spike: 3 65 cm. long, nearly 1 mm. thick when flowering ; 
rhachis hirsute; bract glabrous, rounded-subobovate ; stamens 2, 
anthers elliptic, 2-valvate, filaments very short: 2 about 7°6—15°6 
em. long when ripe; rhachis and bract as in the male; ovary 
free, glabrous, ovate; stigmas 3, linear. Berry sessile, subobovate- 
globose, shortly mucronate, 4:2 mm. long, black when dry. 
PERAK: on Maxwell’s hill, at 3000 ft. altitude, March, Scorte- 
